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It sure looks that way.

With its first issue eighty years ago, "Plain Talk" led the resistance to Soviet Russia and Communist China.

On a century of avant-garde advertising.

Parliament's 1774 revocation of Massachusetts's charter and the representative government it enshrined was the last straw for many colonists in Worcester.

At the end of the Vietnam War, Congress engaged in a breathtaking act of legislative assertion, affirming lawmakers’ power to declare war – not the president.

A covert US campaign in the mid-20th century helped steer Iran toward the intense anti-American sentiment that has distinguished its government policy.

Early hip-hop magazines shaped culture journalism, but poor archiving, legal issues, and neglect have left much of their history missing online.

The Black Hills, and the memorial carved there, sit at the center of debates about American history and identity.

A leaked database of proposed revisions, mapped.

On the paranormal archive of SORRAT.

An early attempt to visualize the broader implications of thermonuclear war.

Both Prohibition and current mass deportation efforts were hastily built, staffed by people permitted to use force, and had difficult objectives to achieve.

How a disease often portrayed as harmlessly humorous became the target of one of the most effective vaccination campaigns in U.S. history.

A brief history of the Belgian Friendship Building.

Taxi Driver and the myths we tell about Vietnam veterans.

On paper, declaring war is reserved for Congress. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution turned a constitutional requirement into a legislative habit of looking away.

On the role of religion in Reconstruction.

Federal immunization mandates eradicated measles, but the disease’s resurgence reveals that cultural and communications challenges of public health are ongoing.

The shadow of the dysfunctional New Left is so long that it’s sometimes hard to see the light beyond it.

The management of fetal remains has a complicated history in Western Europe and the United States.

Why is the global right so obsessed with the idea?

From Jack the Ripper to Nixon and Watergate to Trump and Epstein, coverups have frequently roiled political history.

One of the most famous African Americans in his day, Robeson was marginalized for his political views.

Only the total abolition of the DHS can restore freedom.

One of TV's most famous families laughed off measles in the 1960s. The episode has resurfaced in battles over measles vaccinations today.

Explore visualizations of a disease nearly every child was expected to contract.

"Nothing is more like the future than the past."

The two men who claimed to have reached the North Pole first would stop at nothing to hold the coveted title.

Created in 1897, a discovered film is over two decades older than the term "robot."

Thomas Jefferson endured deep personal loss and political strife, yet held faith in future generations to fulfill America’s ideals despite his flaws.

Fifty years ago, a controversial writer taught us how to talk about sex and pleasure, selling books by the millions. Why do so few people know her name today?

The Trump administration’s efforts to narrow the scope of the 14th Amendment are based on revisionist history.

The rules-based order was a polite fiction based in a fundamental misunderstanding of contemporary geopolitics.

For almost a century, the U.S. Supreme Court has been incredibly solicitous of executive power in foreign affairs.

With the expiration of the arms agreement between Washington and Moscow, the world faces a new era of nuclear competition.

Dr. Jeanne E. Abrams to discuss George Washington’s life-long interest in medicine in the wake of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

The U.S. has a long history of attempting territorial expansion and economic dominance. Is there anything new in Trump's foreign policy stance?

A widow's fight against the Freedmen's Bureau.

We don’t need permission from the government to commemorate a complex past.

On the ancient and modern inspirations behind the heroes that populate the Marvel universe.

From its beginnings, deportation has been a tool used to threaten, suppress, and break dissent. ICE’s targeting of political enemies is no exception.

The origins of national security.

It has only ever been migrant movements, rather than benevolent states, that have granted true safety for the endangered.

The US has grown wary of long occupations. Dropping the pretense of exporting democracy, the Trump administration now seeks to force existing powers to comply.

The Iran-Contra affair was a turning point in U.S. history, one that normalized the erosion of key democratic principles and helped birth our current disorder.

Hemispheric aggression was not the fifth president’s vision, nor has it proved a particularly effective tactic.

On race and religion in the colonization of Native Americans.

Indigenous slavery, which lasted for centuries, has gone by many names. A new public history project wants us to see it for what it was.

Clean drinking water is a modern miracle. But it has become expensive, and it doesn’t need to be.

SEC football in country music.